Press Releases
about LGBTQ Rights
Sep 20, 2017
³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ Challenges Discriminatory Practices in Michigan’s Foster Care System
DETROIT — The ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ and ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ of Michigan today filed a lawsuit in federal district court challenging Michigan’s practice of permitting state-contracted...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Sep 15, 2017
³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ Comment on Legislation to Protect Transgender Service Members
WASHINGTON — The Senate introduced a bipartisan bill today that would protect transgender service members by preventing the Department of Defense from removing currently-serving ...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Sep 14, 2017
³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ Seeks Immediate Halt to Trump’s Transgender Service Member Ban
BALTIMORE — The ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ and the law firm Covington & Burling LLP today asked a judge to immediately halt to the Trump administration’s ban on transge...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Stone v. Trump
Sep 12, 2017
³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ Mourns Edie Windsor
NEW YORK — Edith Windsor, whose landmark Supreme Court case struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 and granted same-sex married couples federal recognition for the first...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Sep 07, 2017
³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ Comment on Justice Department Position in Masterpiece Cakeshop SCOTUS Case
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department filed a brief today with the Supreme Court arguing that businesses that are open to the public have a constitutional right to discriminate aga...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Aug 28, 2017
³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ Files Lawsuit Challenging Trump’s Transgender Service Member Ban
MARYLAND — The ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ and Covington & Burling LLP today filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the president’s directive banni...
Issue Areas:
LGBTQ Rights
Court case: Stone v. Trump
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News & CommentaryJul 2025
LGBTQ Rights
Court Strikes Down Nih's Unlawful Termination Of Research Grants On Topics Including Dei And Gender Identity. Explore News & Commentary.Court Strikes Down NIH's Unlawful Termination of Research Grants on Topics Including DEI and Gender Identity
In a sweeping rebuke, a court ruled that NIH’s actions targeting research involving "disfavored" topics and populations were unlawful, arbitrary, and capricious, and therefore void. Ibis Reproductive Health reflects on the harm done — and why this research matters. -
News & CommentaryJun 2025
LGBTQ Rights
The Supreme Court Dealt A Blow To Trans Rights. Here's How To Take Action. Explore News & Commentary.The Supreme Court Dealt A Blow to Trans Rights. Here's How to Take Action
The decision in Skrmetti v. U.S. is not the end of the road. We can, and must, show up for trans youth in the courts and in our communities. -
PodcastJun 2025
LGBTQ Rights
Who We Fight For: The Journey To Trans Liberation. Explore Podcast.Who We Fight For: The Journey to Trans Liberation
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News & CommentaryJul 2025
LGBTQ Rights
Live Coverage: Scotus Decision Day. Explore News & Commentary.Live Coverage: SCOTUS Decision Day
Join us as we wait for decisions in several Supreme Court cases in which the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ has served as counsel or filed amicus briefs.